Originally published at National Catholic Register
Duffy, who is a husband and father of nine children, highlighted the importance of family during this time in his life.
Sean Duffy shared with EWTN News how his family and Catholic faith have sustained him during his extraordinarily intense first months as U.S. secretary of transportation.
Despite the major challenges he has faced in the role, Duffy said: “I think that when you’re called to service and called in times of crisis, you don’t do it by yourself … you have someone walking with you, and it’s important to tap into your faith.”
In an interview with EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo on March 20, Duffy discussed the horrific airplane crashes in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia earlier this year. He told Arroyo that the devastating losses “put in focus the mission of the department is safety.”
“It was not the way we anticipated our tenure starting out,” he said. “I talked to a number of the families from the DCA [Reagan National Airport] crash who lost loved ones. And if you can prevent that, if you can have policies in place that save future lives, I’m going to do everything I can to make that happen.”
